Example sentences of "happened to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did try to give parents the right to choose a school for their children and not just accept the one that happened to be closest ; this mattered , since property values soar where schools are good . |
| 2 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |
| 3 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 4 | He had fought the Japanese and also happened to be Communist . |
| 5 | On his deathbed at Pentecost 337 he was baptized by a bishop whose sympathies happened to be Arian ; much later legend made Pope Silvester bestow the lifegiving baptismal water . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Mrs Markham , ’ a Mrs Prothero and President of the Women 's Institute said one day , ‘ I happened to be passing and just wanted to extend a welcome on behalf of the whole village . ’ |
| 7 | Normally I ask for an appointment , but I happened to be passing and saw the lights — and the chopper . |
| 8 | The marble happened to be perfect . |
| 9 | She made numerous complaints to her manager , who happened to be male , what did he do ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm glad I happened to be awake , ’ I said , ‘ but I must go now . |
| 11 | To allege incompetence at playing the tuba would not lower most people in the eyes of their fellow citizens — unless they happened to be professional tubists . |
| 12 | The spine was so long and thick that Hawkbit , who happened to be close by , woke Speedwell to have a look at it . |
| 13 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 14 | And did he have to flaunt his sexual prowess with her as well , just because she happened to be female , and happened to be there ? |
| 15 | ‘ It was the day before my estimated delivery date , which also happened to be one of the children 's birthdays and half-term holidays , so I was very busy . |
| 16 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 17 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 18 | Now it was apparently neither here nor there that the two even happened to be present . |
| 19 | Because I happened to be fluent in French , I was promoted 11 months later to loan officer and assigned to the French-speaking Arab countries of North Africa , where I made my first international calls . |
| 20 | He seemed far more concerned to take money off the rich — especially if they happened to be Muslim . |
| 21 | Over the past two centuries the ships employed have ranged from totally unsuitable ones , which happened to be available at the time , to , less commonly , purpose-built vessels incorporating the most sophisticated technology of the day . ’ |
| 22 | Damned good luck that Calder happened to be available this morning , was n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment . |
| 24 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 25 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 26 | This happened to be all of the middle section of the body , which had lost almost everything from and including the bottom two ribs down to the top of the pelvis . |
| 27 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 28 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 29 | I happened to be able to put it together again , it was n't too difficult , and er so I got the job of being clerk-cum-what-have-you . |
| 30 | Er all the clothing you had was provided by yourself , boiler suits , boots er there there was no protective clothing at all , there were no protection for your hearing , er there was no what we called leathers as such for er to save you from getting burned with scales off of the rivets , with burning machines etcetera , there were n't there was absolutely no er protective clothing at all , unless you happened to be able to buy it yourself somewhere . |